Dear Life

Thursday, February 23, 2006

dear life 72

dear life,
seven days of public mourning are announced for the destruction of Shiite shrines in Iraq, people come to streets to protest in thousands in Islamic countries, and religious leaders cry in hatred for those responsible; and one wonders if the lives of innocent people, children, and women were taken as precious. yes, the buildings are sacred, but are they more sacred than the life god has blown into our human bodies? one wonders over the values ruling over our world. one wonders over so many things.

Friday, February 03, 2006

dear life 71

dear life,
yesterday as i was preparing a translation on the new google china web site and its censorship issues, i thought to myself, just a hundred years ago there was no google, and today we wonder how we can live even one day by without the search engine in existence. then as i checked my email, i found one threatening of yahoo mail shutting down for those who don't forward the particular mail - probaby nothing but a spam - but i thought what if one day we open our email account and found it blocked, erased, just gone. how much of our identity would we lose forever and ever, and we have no way of protecting ourselves against that. we may even consider the day yahoo and hotmail email accounts disappear for good as one of the greatest catastrophic days of the modern world of technology, don't you think so?